Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art: Optical Deconstructions

ISBN-13: 9781138480612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 194 str.

Edit Toth

Opis

This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1.Introduction; 2. Orienting The New Woman: Breuer’s Furniture and Complex Gender Expressivity at the Haus Am Horn; 3. Optical Improvisations: Jazz, Film and Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage Domestic Interventions: Brandt’s "Mediatized" Objects and Self-Portrait Photographs; 5. "Taking Apart" The Sukiya: The Yamawakis’ Postwar Tokyo Home' 6. Vertigo and Kepes’s Light Art in 1950’s America; 7. Contemporary Art, Architecture and Media Recovering Material Space

O autorze

Edit Toth is Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.